Bøger af Professor Peter Drahos

After colonization, indigenous people faced an extractive property rights regime for both their land and knowledge. This book outlines that regime, how international intellectual property continues today to assist states to enclose indigenous peoples' knowledge and the networked response of indigenous people to this enclosure.

Patent offices around the world have granted millions of patents to multinational companies. Based on a study of 45 rich and poor countries that takes in the world's largest and smallest offices, the book is for those interested in intellectual property, patent reform, globalisation, governance, development, international relations and economics.

This work attempts to address the question, "Can we accommodate intellectual property within one or more of the existing general accounts of property, or should we develop a distinctive theory of intellectual property?" Locke, Hegel and Marx are drawn upon in the discussion.

How did intellectual property rules become part of the World Trade Organization's free trade agreements? How have these rules changed the knowledge game for international business? What are the consequences for the ownership of biotechnology and digital technology? This book tells the story of the transformations in information ownership.